Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Jews was a good one, but strange and full of dangers, where a, nation was to spring up beloved by the Lord. This is equally true of our country, the time is a good one, the best one that God has ever sent, but dangers of various kinds are ahead. Every evil by being crushed can be made to serve the purposes of the Lord. Greatest of these evils at the present time may be placed side by side, socialism and laziness. It is scarcely possible to conceive of a sin that tempts one like laziness, the temptation of living...
Harvard has grit and enterprise. She has athletic bodies as well as vigorous brains, and Boston has money enough to back her favorite boys and give them every assistance needed. Let Captain Keyes go ahead and begin to train his crew at once, let him pick his men for coolness and endurance, and then let him say what he wants in order to make a winning crew, and the people will see to it that every aid shall be furnished...
...proclamation of the governor, Saturday, May 30, has been set apart as "Arbor Day." The college seems to have got ahead of date in planting our new thickets...
...Dickinsonian" asks if this is impossible. We answer, no; and venture to state further, that at the end of not many years ahead of us Harvard University will become a university in fact. And that it will simply be the care of the faculty to attend to the studies of the students, and to let the rest fall upon the shoulders of the men themselves...
...keep away from the rowing machines till after the semi-annual examinations, and when an old hand takes the oars then he does not feel himself very far behind the others. But the next June he loses the race and then "can't see why Yale should have got ahead...